Snap-hook.



No. 7 l6,748. Patented Dec; 23, I902.)

A, R. DTTERMAN.

SNAP HOOK.

(Applicatinn filed Nov. 26, 1901.)

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ARTHUR R. OTTERMAN, OF BRIDGEVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO OTTERMAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF BRIDGEVILLE, PENNSYL- VANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

SNAP-HOOK.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 716,748, dated December 23, 1902.

Application filed November 26,1901. derial No. 83.698. (N model- {So all whom it may concern: is mounted on the rivet 2 a suitable'roller 3.

Be it known that I, ARTHUR R. OTTERM'AN, This clevis carries a frame consisting of side a citizen of the United States of America, rewalls 4 5 and a bottom 6, the side wall or exsidiug at Bridgeville, in the county of Alletension a having an integral hook member 7,

5 gheny and State of Pennsylvania, have inthe free end of which is provided with a revented certain new and useful Improvements cess 8, the walls of which are shaped to conin Snap-Hooks, of which the following is a form to the shape of the end of the pivoted specification, reference being bad therein to hook member, as will be further described. the accompanying drawings. The side wall or extension 5 of the frame is IO This invention relates to certain new and parallel with the side wall or extension 4:, and 6c useful improvements in snaphooks, and is these two walls are apertured to receive the particularly adapted for such snap-hooks as rivet 9,upon which the pivoted portion ormemare employed on the ends of breast or neck' ber 10 of the hook is mounted. This pivoted yokes for connecting with the breast-straps of member 10 has an extension 11,wh ich projects :5 the harness, though the form of snap-hook normally above the top edge of theside walls shown may readily be employed for connecor extensions 4 5 and on its underneath face tion with the neck-yoke centrally thereof or carries a stud 12. A like stud l-i is secured on for whiffletree snap-hooks or the like. the upper face of the bottom 6, and these two The primary object of the invention is to studs engage in the ends of the coil-spring 15,

2o construct a hook in which the pivoted part arranged between the extension 11 and the of the hook member is shaped to engage in bottom 6 to hold the free end of the portion the seat provided therefor in the free end of or member 10 normally in engagement with the rigid member of the hook and also to so the seat 8 in the member 7. The free end of construct the pivoted member of the book as the member 10 is cut away, as at 16, to form 25 to permit the easy operation thereof and at differentlydisposed inclined faces, which the same time insure a firm engagement of conform to the three inclined faces or walls the free end thereof with the seat in the end of the seat 8, the said end of the member 10 of the rigid member. engaging in said seat in a manner that when With the above and other objects in view fully seated the outer face of the pivoted 50 the invention consists in the novel combinamember will be flush with the outer face of tion and arrangement of parts to be hereinthe stationary member. This recess or seat after more fully described, and specifically 8 is substantially V-shaped and has an end pointed out in the claim. wall against which one of the inclined faces In describing the invention in detail referof the free end of member 10 abuts, the face 35 once is had to the accompanying drawings, 16 hearing against the outer of the walls forming a part of this specification, and formed by the V-shaped recess, and the botwherein like numerals of reference indicate tom of this free end member 10 engages the corresponding parts throughout the several other wall formed by said V-shaped recess. views, in which The operation of the device will be readily 40 Figure l is a detail perspective view of my apparent from the illustration given in Fig. improved snap-hook, showing the same par 1, as it will be observed that pressure on the tially open and the manner of operating. Fig. extension 11 will compress the spring 15 and 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the hook. elevate the free end of the member 10, so as Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the pivto permit the engagement or disengagement 5 oted portion or member of the hook. Fig. 4 of the hook with the ring or other device. is an end view of the same. Fig. 5 is a de- When used as a breast-strap hook, the tail perspective view of the stationary porbreast-strap will be passed through the opention or member of the hook. ing in the clevis and the roller 3 will operate To put my'invention into practice, I proon the breast-strap. If the hook is to be used 50 vide the olevis 1, into the outer end of which for connection centrally of the breast or neck I00 yoke, the roller3 would be removed and the rivet would be passed through the breast or neck yoke, as will be readily apparent.

In the construction of the device it will be observed that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of my invention.

Having fully described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a snap-hook, the combination of a clevis, a frame carried on one end of said clevis and comprising parallel side walls and a bottom, an upwardly-extending stud carried by the bottom near the rear end of the bottom, a hook member formed integral with one of the side walls of the frame, said hook member having a recess in its upper face at the free end, a second hook member pivotally mounted between the side Walls of the frame with its free end shaped to fit the recess in the end of the first-mentioned hook member, a projection carried by the rearend of the hook member and extending normally above the frame to be engaged and depressed for elevating the outer end of said pivoted hook member, a stud ,carried by the underneath face of said projection, and a spring held by said stud and the stud on the bottom for holding said projection normally elevated and the outer end in engagement With the recess in the other hook member.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR R. OTTERMAN. Witnesses:

JOHN N OLAND, E. E. POTTER. 

